Author Archives: Rich

PHP UK Conference 2010

Last Friday (26 February 2010), myself and Ed Lucas from White October took a trip down the M40 to the PHP UK Conference 2010, hosted at the Business Design Centre in London.  The purpose of the trip was three-fold – firstly to attend some great talks, secondly to socialise and meet other members of the [...]

Hudson and Symfony continuous integration

We’ve been experimenting this week with using Hudson as our continuous integration server for our latest Symfony project.  Previous experiences with CruiseControl via phpUnderControl and the symfonyUnderControl plugin were OK-ish but we’d occasionally experience CruiseControl dying on us with no warning apart from the lack of emails after checking our code in.
So we decided it [...]

Don’t be afraid to NOT use the ORM…

I’ve been racking my brains the past couple of days with a Doctrine issue within a Symfony project. I was constructing a bank statement-esque page, which iterated over a “StatementEntry” table and displayed the results. Entries could either be of model Type A or model Type B, with the relevant model ID stored [...]